voodoo banshee any good?

[Net Llama!]

On 01/09/2005 02:31 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> One of my neighbors seems to have gotten a new computer as an xmas 
>> gift, as I found his old computer sitting by the trash a few days 
>> ago.  Never being one to pass up old computer parts, I grabbed it and 
>> halled it back home to see if there was anything useful.
>>
>> amazingly, its got a fully functional AMD K6-2 400Mhz CPU, with 228MB 
>> RAM, 17GB IDE HD, tulip-compatible NIC, and 64MB Voodoo Banshee 
>> videocard.  Knoppix booted it up without a problem, and I found win98 
>> still sitting on the HD.
>>
>> Just about all the components are nothing to brag about, but i'm 
>> curious about the banshee videocard.  Anyone know if this is any good 
>> for 3d performance?
> 
> 
> My recollection is that the vodoo banshee cards were considered a creme 
> card in their day. I seem to recall lots of effort to get them to work 
> under XFree86 3.x. That's probably quite a find in a junker computer. 

Thanks.  Knoppix had no problems getting it working.  I'd imagine that 
after all these years its well supported.

> Most of the ones I get have something pathetic like SiS or Verge or such 
> garbage.

This is the first time i've gone 'dumpster diving' since college  :)

> 
> That machine is powerful enough to make someone a decent workstation. 
> Congrats.

Yea, i was thinking of letting my son play with it.  He's starting to 
take a pretty big interest in the other computers, and i'd rather he 
broke one that cost me nothing  :)



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